Don Nickles: “May I ask the sponsor of the bill, doesn't this, in effect, provide for a 26-week extension of Federal unemployment…”

Law makers must carefully distinguish between the need for tax credits which may operate as subsidies, compared to more favored tax deductions which are expensed as part of ordinary business operations.

If you do really good tax reform, you do not need energy tax issues. Let the marketplace work.

I led the effort to repeal the windfall profits tax. We finally did.

I do not defend 199, period. I think Congress--when you are rewriting the tax code, you should have a uniform corporate rate, not a lower rate for manufacturing.